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Systems hangs, then BSOD, then BIOS loses my hdd.

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I recently tried to troubleshoot some errors I saw in the event viewer. I forget what the feature is called, but windows has some startup option that will check your drivers for the right signing or something like that? So when I tried it, windows started failing to boot. Not knowing that I could disable the startup program again from safe mode, I instead did a refresh from my disc.

Thins seemed to go well after that until I started reinstalling Norton 360 while windows update was going at the same time. Windows froze up for the longest time, then I got the BSOD and when the computer rebooted itself, my computer couldn't find anything to boot. I checked BIOS and my hdd was missing from the bootup list. I was able to put it back in the startup list, and things were normal from there.

Got all my updates and everything, Norton seems to be working. But about once a week or so, usually while I'm web browsing, my computer starts to get super slow, and sometimes it eventually hangs. Sometimes when it hangs, I can wait it out and it'll recover. But sometimes, I get the BSOD again.

Now, when it happens, my hdd is missing from bios altogether, as if it is not connected. But, if I shut down, and power back up, it'll be start right back up without me even having to go into bios.

Do I have some bad hardware maybe? Or maybe some kind of malware getting into the RAM? Or is windows messed up?

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